Word: lootings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...against it. Culkin plays Timmy, the son whom widowed Ray hasn't seen for three years, and he arrives just as his dad and two confederates are about to rob a coin collection. This they manage with a cleverness that belies their alleged incompetence. But the boy steals the loot, and will give it back only if Ray will act the good father for a week -- you know, ball games, amusement parks, miniature golf. Father and son bond, of course, and along the way Timmy does a little matchmaking, helping Pop and the cop who's trailing him (Glenne Headly...
...concluded that the jet was shot down with rockets belonging to the Rwandan army -- most likely by the presidential guard angered at plans to include Tutsis in the government. The 600-strong guard began murdering all the Tutsis they could find. The army soon joined in, as much to loot as to kill...
...sides of any vehicle that would attempt the twisting, mountainous roads. The wealthy raced away in luxury cars with private bodyguards, the barrels of automatic weapons jutting from every window. Danger still waited at checkpoints every mile or so, manned by demoralized and frightened Rwandan soldiers looking for loot...
...that elected all those fellows, on both sides of the aisle, who so loyally serve the rich. Maybe now we'll smarten up and learn how to hold on to our wallets. Or maybe the dread class war is already over, and the suits have run away with the loot...
...worried about such matters than about a repetition of the hooliganism accompanying the 1992 riots. Police chief Willie Williams instituted a dusk-to-dawn curfew and warned that looters would be prosecuted and jailed. Instead, in the first few | days crime dropped 80%. Maybe people were too awed to loot anything but grapefruits from public parking lots. There was a treeful right here at the mall, and the quake has shaken them down prematurely, brilliant yellow polka dots on a gray field. A family rushes to the lot and collects as many grapefruits...